George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 8:21
By it. The word of God. (Haydock) --- God. Elohim means also princes or idols. (Calmet) --- Whether they seek God unwillingly, or the aid of men, (ver. 22.) they shall perish. (Worthington)
By it. The word of God. (Haydock) --- God. Elohim means also princes or idols. (Calmet) --- Whether they seek God unwillingly, or the aid of men, (ver. 22.) they shall perish. (Worthington)
Verse Isaiah 8:21. _HARDLY BESTEAD_ - "Distressed"] Instead of נקשה _niksheh,_ _distressed_, the _Vulgate, Chaldee_, and _Symmachus_ manifestly read נכשל _nichshal, stumbling, tottering through weakne...
AND THEY SHALL PASS - The people who have been consulting necromancers. This represents the condition of these who have sought for counsel and direction, and who have not found it. They shall be consc...
CHAPTER 8 Jehovah's Word Through Isaiah and the Assyrian Announced 1. _The divine instruction and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1)_ 2. _The Assyrian to come (Isaiah 8:5)_ 3. _The answer of faith (I...
ISAIAH 8:19 TO ISAIAH 9:1. SOME FRAGMENTARY UTTERANCES. These fragments are of uncertain date and authorship, corrupt in text and obscure in sense. The first, Isaiah 8:19 f., is a warning against necr...
THEY: i.e. they who live not in the light of God's Word. IT: i.e. Immanuel's land. The singular number and same verb, referring back to Isaiah 8:8. HARDLY BESTEAD. in hard case. FRET THEMSELVES. Com...
_they shall pass through it_ Obviously, the land; but something must have fallen out before this verse, to account for the reference of the pronoun. Throughout this and the following verse, "they," "t...
Another scene, representing the utter desolation of the land, and the miseries of the survivors....
AND THEY SHALL PASS THROUGH IT— The attentive reader must observe, that the 21st verse is connected with the last clause of the preceding one; _no light, no morning to them._ The prophet had here deno...
THE PEDAGOGY Isaiah 8:16-22 TEXT: Isaiah 8:16-22 16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and...
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward....
8:21 it, (h-6) i.e. 'the land.'...
CURSE THEIR KING, etc.] RV 'curse by their king and by their God.' The expression is the same as in 1 Samuel 17:43....
1. TAKE, etc.] read 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' A MAN'S PEN] i.e. such as a common man would use for writing in large characters that al...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 8 ISAIAH’S SON WILL BE A SIGN TO THE PEOPLE V1 The *Lord sen...
Ahaz failed the test. So now his people are prisoners of a powerful enemy in a foreign country. Because they have left God out of their situation, their future is completely without hope. It is as if...
AND THEY SHALL PASS THROUGH IT... — _i.e.,_ through the land over which hangs the sunless gloom. The abruptness with which the verse opens, the absence of any noun to which the pronoun “it” may refer,...
וְ עָ֥בַר בָּ֖הּ נִקְשֶׁ֣ה וְ רָעֵ֑ב וְ
CHAPTER VI KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 735-732 B.C. Isaiah 7:8, 9:Isaiah 7:1 THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a number of separate prophecies uttered during...
THE PRINCE OF PEACE Isaiah 8:19-22; Isaiah 9:1-7 When men cease to trust in God and rely on the help of man, they often turn to necromancy and spirit-rapping. The medium takes the place of the Mediat...
In this section we have the account of how the prophet turns from his more public ministry to devote himself to a small circle of believing souls. This departure was signalized by his writing on a tab...
And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to (a) pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, (b) and curse their king and their God, and look upwar...
I do not think it needful to detain the Reader with long observations on this part of the chapter. The advice here given is to the same amount as the former; the Lord utterly condemns all seeking, but...
21._Then they shall pass through that land. _Not to permit believers to be ensnared by the common errors, he adds how dreadful is the punishment which awaits the ungodly when they have revolted from G...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
AND THEY SHALL PASS THROUGH IT,.... The land, as the Targum and Kimchi supply it; that is, the land of Judea, as Aben Ezra interprets it. Here begins an account of the punishment that should be inflic...
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward....
_And they_ The idolatrous and apostate Israelites; _shall pass through it_ Namely, their own land, into captivity; or, as עבר בה may be rendered, _shall pass to and fro_, or _wander hither and thither...
And they, the unbelievers, shall pass through it, walking about in the land, HARDLY BESTEAD, oppressed both from within and without, AND HUNGRY, in the very depths of misery; AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE TESTIMONY...
17-22 The prophet foresaw that the Lord would hide his face; but he would look for his return in favour to them again. Though not miraculous signs, the children's names were memorials from God, suite...
AND THEY, the idolatrous and apostatical Israelites, SHALL PASS THROUGH IT, or, _in it_, to wit, their own land, which is easily understood out of the context, and from the phrase itself; the pronoun...
Isaiah 8:21 pass H5674 (H8804) pressed H7185 (H8737) hungry H7457 hungry H7456 (H8799) enraged H7107 ...
CONTENTS: Predictions of the Syrian invasion and of the desolations of Judah and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Israel, Uriah, Zechariah, Maher, Shalal-hash-baz, Rezin, sons of Remaliah. CONCLUSION: If a n...
Isaiah 8:1. _Take thee a great roll._ Lowth reads, a large mirror. The Chaldaic has _scripturam claram,_ a fair writing, which might be on a polished plate; but the Versions read as the English. Isaia...
_And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry_ UNSANCTIFIED SUFFERING I. SIN LEADS TO SUFFERING. II. THERE IS IN SUFFERING NO SANCTIFYING POWER. It may harden men in iniquity. III. SUF...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:16 The difference between the remnant (vv. Isaiah 8:16) and the hardened nation (vv. Isaiah 8:19)
UNSANCTIFIED SUFFERING Isaiah 8:21, and Isaiah 9:13. _And they shall pass through it, &c._ I. SIN LEADS TO SUFFERING. 1. This is true of _individuals_ (H. E. I. 4603–4612). But because there is anot...
NECROMANCY Isaiah 8:19. _Seek unto them, &c._ As bearing upon the doctrine of necromancy, an exhaustive discussion of these verses would involve the following points: 1. Under the instigation of a p...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 8:1 THE SIGN OF MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ. The sign of Immanuel was recondite. In its more spiritual sense it appealed to faith in an event far distant. Even in its literal import, it w...
So in chapter 8 he continues in this prediction of the Assyrian invasion. Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaia...
2 Kings 25:3; 2 Kings 6:33; Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:34;...
It — Their own land. Hungry — Sorely distressed, and destitute of food, and all necessaries. Their king — Either because he doth not relieve them; or because by his foolish counsels, he brought them i...